Re: [gentoo-dev] Speaking of new kernels being added to the tree

[Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@gentoo.org>]

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On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 14:12, C. Brewer wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 05:54:09 -0400
> Brad Laue <brad@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > Many ebuilds do this; if a USE flag enables a feature with which another 
> > feature conflicts, the other feature must be disabled to compensate - 
> > shouldn't be much of a logistical problem.
> 
> Rather than use flags against the gentoo-sources...why not use flags against
> the appropriate vanilla versions? Should clear up the tree a bunch, and then
> you could have -
> vanilla-sources (with use wolk,xfs,ck,etc)
> dev-sources (with use mm,whatever)
> gentoo-sources
> ppc-sources
> other-sources..
> I know it'd be a bunch of work to change em over, but it'd leave the
> gentoo-sources from getting clashed and should be easier to keep track of
> one ebuild with different useflags than fifteen ebuilds..or it could be time
> for my medication again:)

A problem is that people who release kernel patches do not do so at the
same time (e.g. Con Kolivas's second patchset for 2.4.22 is not released
at the same time as Alan Cox's third patchset for 2.4.22 etc etc, so the
version numbers would not work out properly for third-party patchsets,
and people wouldn't know when upgrades were available.

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